God has a sense of humor

I have no cool pictures to post of our latest snow day (which was beautiful by the way). I have very little in the form of written blog. The reason....Well my computer is currently sitting lifeless on my family room floor. This is now I know God has a sense of humor.

After my last post, I went on my way setting my own fun goals for being more productive but still spent my Sunday on my laptop planning my upcoming Disney vacation. Lo and behold in the middle of said planning, my laptop simply shut down. When that tiny piece of machinery tried to turn back on it could not find an operating system and, as a result, sits lifeless on my family room floor.

I know there's a blog in there about not finding an operating system in life. Maybe...when my laptop is back up and running and I am able (please God let me be able) to recover the five months of precious photos I may have lost, I will write that blog. However in the mean time I am unable to spend my day emailing, Facebooking and otherwise wasting my time on that seemingly indispensible machine.

So, while I will be VERY sad if I lost those photos (totally my own silly fault), I am thankful that I have been given this gift of living my life unplugged. I'm enjoying it. My kids are enjoying it.
My DH is enjoying it (all those to dos are getting done, don't cha know?). And I imagine, God smiling down on it all. Perhaps laughing a little at my type A'ness and at the result of his little life disruption. Because He does have a sense of humor after all.

A little overwhelmed

So I've been spending a little time exploring the blog world. I have known that there are some bloggers out there who are crafty. I have been to Etsy and seen the amazing things that people are creating at home but really...there are some crazy crafters out there. There's a ladies blog devoting to wood working,another one who posts new sewing projects all the time...who made a play house cover for her table...It's amazing. Really.Amazing.

So I sit here, a little overwhelmed because in my day I am lucky to get my house picked up, dishes done and spend a little quality time with my kiddos. So my question is, how do they do it? How is a person able to build a child's play house out of felt, with children in their house and live to blog about it?

There is part of me that wants to say that they can't. That something must be falling between the cracks and that they are pretending. That may be true. But there's another piece of me that hopes that it's not. That they are those amazing women who love to sit and play with their kids and then craft all night...that those women really are out there. That it is possible.

Don't get me wrong. I'm happy with where I am. I have great kids, my house is relatively clean and my laundry is (mostly) done. I'm able to spend time with my Maker each day and even manage to get a work out in here and there. But maybe just maybe I'll find time to add in some crafting. But for now, I'm just happy to look at what others are doing :)

True Confessions

This past weekend I spent two lovely days in the mountains of Colorado, without my children, at a women’s retreat. However, before I tell you about the amazing women, the great worship, the terrific speaker I want to get a few things off my chest.

1. I spend too much time on my computer. I check my email too often, surf the web, browse through Facebook and generally waste time on my laptop.
2. I don’t like gardening. I love pretty flowers, love the idea of gardening but quite simply don’t like the time that it takes to make a garden happen.
3. There are a lot of vegetables and other healthy foods that I just do not enjoy. This is a problem because I live in Colorado where EVERYONE eats healthy. I even make my kids eat some of it because I know it’s healthy, but honestly, I think I’d rather have a twinkie!
4. I love my children but I do not love pretending to be someone in Hannah Montana’s audience, nor do I love pretending to be some clone from Star Wars. Let them bring me stories to read all day…that’s my idea of heaven!
5. I don’t like cleaning. I don’t like picking up, filing things away, scrubbing toilets, mopping floors or really, anything else that is involved in making my house presentable.

Well, I could go on but you might be here all day. My weekend away was all about being messy, and how letting others see our messiness is what brings about genuine relationships. God isn’t disgusted by our messiness, so why are we? So I’ve decided to share some of my messiness. Rest assured I’m working on it. I do clean my house from time to time…and I do grow flowers. But I’m okay with being me. So now, I think I’ll go have a twinkie :)

P.S. In the spirit of messiness I've changed my header to include a photo of my messy kids, because I love them just as they are.